The Paranoia Papers:
Selected
Bibliography

Theory of the
(Un)Natural History of
Social Paranoia

Compiled by Ralph Dumain

“Fascism has awakened
a sleeping world to the realities of the irrational, mystical character
structure of the people of the world.”

— Wilhelm Reich

“Fascism
has opened up the depths of society for politics. Today, not only in
peasant homes but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside of
the twentieth century the tenth or the thirteenth. A hundred million
people use electricity and still believe in the magic power of signs
and exorcisms. The Pope of Rome broadcasts over the radio about the
miraculous transformation of water into wine. Movie stars go to
mediums. Aviators who pilot miraculous mechanisms created by man's
genius wear amulets on their sweaters. What inexhaustible reserves they
possess of darkness, ignorance, and savagery! Despair has raised them
to their feet; fascism has given them a banner. Everything that should
have been eliminated from the national organism in the form of cultural
excrement in the course of the normal development of society has now
come gushing out from the throat; capitalist society is puking up the
undigested barbarism. Such is the physiology of National
Socialism.”

— Leon Trotsky

“For it is just
here that we find
the perfect expression of that dialectical unity of cynical nihilism
and speculative, uncritical credulity and frivolous superstition which
every irrationalism contains implicitly and which simply acquired a
matching figure in Hitler.”

— Georg
Lukács

“Well-informed cynicism
is only another mode of conformity. These people willingly embrace or
force themselves to accept the rule of the stronger as the eternal
norm. Their whole life is a continuous effort to suppress and abase
nature, inwardly or outwardly, and to identify themselves with its more
powerful surrogates—the race, fatherland, leader, cliques,
and tradition.”

— Max Horkheimer

“. . . the concept of
ideology makes sense only in relation to the truth or untruth of what
it refers to. There can be no talk of socially necessary delusions
except in regard to what would not be a delusion . . .”

The title essay is a revised
and expanded version of the Herbert Spencer Lecture, delivered at
Oxford in November 1963. An abridged text appeared in Harper's
Magazine, November 1964.

Contents:

Foreword to the Vintage
Edition xi
Introduction xxxi
Part I: Studies in the American Right
1. The Paranoid Style in American
Politics 3
2. The Pseudo-Conservative
Revolt—1954 41
3. Pseudo-Conservatism
Revisited—1965 66
4. Goldwater and Pseudo-Conservative
Politics 93
Part II: Some Problems of the Modern Era:
5. Cuba, the Philippines, and Manifest
Destiny 145
6. What Happened to the Antitrust
Movement? 188
7. Free Silver and the Mind of "Coin"
Harvey 238
Acknowledgments 317
Index 319